Opinion

The answer to everything is not 42; It’s legislation!

This sort of political escapism has become routine, even as problems multiply in number, scope and complexity

Tax regime

The Budget should aim to make the new tax regime more attractive for individuals

Let’s latch on to hyperloop rail

We should take a leaf out of China’s play book and invite foreign investors to develop commercial projects

The geo-politics of gas pipelines

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From the Viewsroom

Slate

All you wanted to know about Algo trading

All you wanted to know about conflict of interest

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Strategic Petroleum Reserves

Statistalk

The Cheat Sheet

Space internet is taking flight

Despite Kathua barbarity, death penalty is no deterrent

The politics and economics of horse-trading

Letters

Letters to the Editor dated January 26, 2022

This refers to ‘Coming, a Budget for consolidation’ (January 26). The Budget exercise is always a deft balancing act. Finance Ministers have to en

Letters to the Editor dated January 25, 2022

Apropos ‘Need for fiscal consolidation’ (January 25), it goes without saying that no economy can achieve its targeted growth unless its policies a

Letters to the Editor dated January 24, 2022

Letters to the Editor dated January 20, 2022

This refers to the article 'Product innovation, availability of retail finance to drive farm mechanisation' (January 20). It is quite true that in the

Letters to the Editor dated January 19, 2022

Letters to the Editor dated Jan 18, 2022

Punjab polls and farmers

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At the photo shoot

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Books

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Less than interesting

The first bi-monthly monetary policy for 2018-19 was a largely desultory exercise

Shifting towards the Centre

From a local government perspective, the terms of the 15th Finance Commission leave much to be desired

Petrol under GST?

The time is not propitious

Professionals should head major ports

With increasing competition from private sector players, there is all the more need to rope in professional managers

Why Chanda Kochhar must resign

Propriety, and the high standards of corporate governance that the bank swears by, demand that she step down right now

The true face of the global recovery

Optimistic assessments of the synchronised recovery across the world economy ignore the factors driving the weak upturn that make it fragile

Discoms’ rooftop moment

Far from being a threat, the rooftop solar revolution is a big opportunity for DISCOMs to cash in on

Is SEBI being a nanny to investors?

If the equity market is to mature, SEBI should stop shielding retail investors from risks by curbing their choices

Indians matter

Facebook needs to be more transparent about how data of its Indian users have been used or misused

Main-streaming blockchains in global trade

With Trade Receivable Discounting System in place, India could be a global leader in this field

Loan waivers derail Fasal Bima Yojana

Expectation of loan waiver causes farmers to stop payment against existing loans. They don’t buy insurance for the next season

Will the Singapore bourse’s tactics work?

With transaction and taxation costs in India becoming competitive, NSE holds the upper hand in its tussle with SGX

Beware of digital licence Raj

Policy should not get paranoid over the Facebook-privacy debate

Social responsibility

Administrators must be accountable for fake news on social media

All you wanted to know about conflict of interest

BEHIND THE NEWS IPL, Chennai and the lose-lose-lose-lose logic

Green signal

The new biofuels policy ticks all the right boxes but execution holds the key

Monsanto ruling may hit innovation

The judgment highlights the need to bring scientific and technical expertise into the judicial process

Let not my country awake... to such bigotry

The Kathua and Unnao rape cases show that the poison of religious bigotry is being injected into our social fabric

Land — the forgotten issue in farmers’ unrest

For boosting farmers’ income, there is an urgent need to improve the system of land administration in the country

Despite Kathua barbarity, death penalty is no deterrent

Currency games

There are no valid grounds for the US to accuse India of being a currency manipulator

Sugar games

The Centre should adopt the Rangarajan panel’s recommendations and link FRP for sugarcane to realisations from sugar and by-products

Gold Coast glory

India’s CWG medal haul is a good augury

THE WIDE ANGLE A global stand-off is hotting up

The US and China are talking tough on trade but the real fight is only just beginning

Why the MSP regime isn’t clicking

Without the backing of a robust procurement policy and associated logistics it is bound to fail

Decoding the future of UK-India relationship

The range of sectors attracting investments is changing and businesses will spread into more regions

Commonwealth 2.0

As the only major multinational alliance without China, it is in India’s interest to ensure that the Commonwealth partnership works

Squeezing the salaried

While going after fraud, spare honest taxpayers

AMERICAN PERISCOPE Customers matter

Training staff on customer sensitivities

Needed, a mandatory tax disclosure law

Apart from deterring professionals from promoting tax avoidance arrangements, it will help the taxman get timely info

Adapting to change

India’s IT bellwethers have proved themselves adaptable to change, but they can no longer be prodigious job-creators

Need to bury memory of demonetisation

The Centre needs to take urgent steps restore the people’s faith in the RBI’s cash management and banking system

Debit card tangle

Banks’ strict compliance of rules can hit customers

Turning the corner

For the economy, the best is yet to come

Reckless move

The Opposition’s impeachment move against the CJI is not well-founded and sets a dangerous precedent

Chips Ahoy!

The EV race looks set to be a high voltage thriller with brands that have no history of car-making entering the fray. Will access to cells and chips b

Chip shortage: Buyers go for new Creta variants with lesser features

Buyers opt for the Creta models with lower number of semiconductors to avoid the long waiting period

Alt energy How dirty coal power is taking a beating

Coal is certainly on its way out with 326 GW of coal-fired power plants scrapped since 2015, and no announcements of new plants

4 things to do after filing your tax returns

Are you sitting back relaxed, having beaten the December 31 deadline to file income tax returns? Wait, there’s more to do!

Index Outlook: Will Sensex and Nifty 50 see a strong turnaround?

Inability to break the crucial resistances keeps alive the broader bearish view

Bullion Cues: Bulls gaining momentum

While gold is yet to break out, silver cracks a key resistance

Auroville: An utopian search for a better world

Akash Kapur’s ‘Better to Have Gone’ traces what happens when we believe deeply in a quest and give up everything in its pursuit

Lady doctors and the rocky path to healing

A handbook on India’s first women doctors holds up a mirror to the social and political realities of the 19th and early 20th century

Conquering Everest: A compelling account of how an impossible dream was achieved

Jim Davidson dwells in detail on the failure to make it in the first attempt and the harrowing return to physically and emotionally draining climb up